The annual Diocesan Wedding Anniversary celebration will take place on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at Immaculate Conception Church, located at 86-45 Edgerton Boulevard, JAMAICA, NY 11432. The Wedding Anniversary Mass will begin at 11:00 AM. Couples celebrating their 25th, 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversaryand above are invited to attend with their families. Kindly distribute the attached flyer, announce the date in your communities and encourage married couples to attend this beautiful celebration of love and fidelity. There will be light refreshments following Mass.

Registration should be completed by the parish, not by the individual couples. All registered couples will receive a personalized certificate and those couples in attendance will have their picture taken with Bishop Octavio Cisneros. If you have any questions regarding this celebration, please contact Martha Hernandez at 718-281-9540. Thank you

Congratulation Father Jarek!!! On Sunday, June 17, 2012 during a Mass of thanksgiving, Reverend Jaroslaw Lawrenz CM was celebrating his 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Father Jarosław Lawrenz was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on July 24, 1962. For the first two years after his ordination on May 30, 1987, Fr. Jaroslaw was assigned to a parish in Słubice.Then he decided to go to continue his work as a missionary and with the blessing of his Provincial Superior he went through Belgium (one year of preparation) to Zaire. From Zaire he was sent to Haiti in 2000 where he worked among the local confreres and with the Vincentian seminarians. Another two years he spend in Sopot, Poland and came to the United States in 2006 joining the New England Province of the Congregation of the Mission.

On the anniversary of the death of Bl. Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko, October, 19th, it is appropriate to remember his efforts in a liturgical memorial. We encourage all to pray at the relics of Father Jerzy , which are present in our church. One hears more and more that praying to Bl. Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko for intercession, leads to graces being bestowed on the needy. Masses in our church are at 6:30AM, 7:00AM, 8:00AM, 7:00PM.

Our sincerest wishes go to Fr. Joseph SzpilskiCM on the55th Anniversary of his Ordination. We wish him good health, an abundance of God’s blessings, perpetual inner spiritual peace, which he has had until now and all the best. We thank God for Your vocation, Fr. Joe.

We thank God for June 24, 1956 when Fr. Joe and 30 deacons in the Congregation of the Mission lying face down during the Litany to All Saints made the final decision to be ordained into the priesthood on that day. He became an Apostle of Christ, Missionary, in Poland at first, and later on American soil he preached the Good News of Salvation and served God and people. Happy Anniversary, Fr. Joe!

Our sincere congratulations and thanks to Mrs. Christine Ippolito on her 25th anniversary of teaching our students. A special Mass was celebrated in her honor on June 2. The entire student body along with our present Principal, Mrs. Christine Cieloszczyk and our former Principal, Sr. Dorothea Jurkowski, CSFN were in attendance. Also present at this special event were her husband and her father. As an expression of their gratitude, children from the school presented Mrs. Ippolito with flowers and a scrapbook commemorating her many years of dedicated service to the students of our school. Thank you and God Bless You.

Nowhere else was the anticipation of Pope John Paul II’s May 1st beatification greater than at St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in Brooklyn, New York. Prayers for his sainthood began in earnest the day he died, just six years earlier.

Nowhere else were they as ardent and as hopeful as they were at this famous landmark church that began serving Greenpoint’s Polish immigrants as far back as the 19th century. Because Father Marek Sobczak C.M. was observing his 30th anniversary of the day he first became a priest, what could be a better way to honor both their pastor and the pope than at a special mass celebrated at the church which now stands on land the City of New York had renamed “John Paul II Square?” Continue reading PRAYERS AND A TRIBUTE TO THE POPE AND THE PASTOR→

We express our best wishes to Fr. Jan Urbaniak, who will celebrate the 40th anniversary of priestly ordination this Monday, February 28, 2011. May God bless you, Fr. Jan, with good health and graces so you can continue to serve the people of God with zeal and love. We offer our prayers for your intention.

Happy anniversary!

On Sunday, October 31, 2010, St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish honored Halina Kalitka for her thirty-five years of distinguished service to the church and community. As a child, she emigrated with her parents from Germany to the United States and worked tirelessly all her life in many spheres of activity, specifically her church, school and community. Continue reading Special Anniversary→

Independent Trade Union SOLIDARITY in Poland is celebrating 30th Anniversary this week. On this occasion the special concelebrated Mass in Polish was given at 11:30 AM, Sunday, August 29 in St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. Fr. Marek Sobczak CM, pastor, presided and Fr. Jan Urbaniak CM was concelebrant. In this way the parish commemorated the events from 1980, when after over two weeks of nation wide strike and workers’ protest communist authority was forced to sign agreement with new workers organization. Continue reading Greenpoint remembers 30th Anniversary of SOLIDARITY Trade Union→

50 years ago our parish bulletin Patron had printed those two articles on Fr. Ed:

FATHER EDMUND GUTOWSKI, C. M .The many years of expectations have drawn to a close. This was perhaps one of the many thoughts of Father Edmund Gutowski, C. M., one of our parishioners on Ascension Thursday. Why? Because on that May 26 he had stepped out of the chapel at Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton, Pa., “a priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedech.” Yes, a day of joy and expectation not only for his family and friends but also for us parishioners who have come to know and await this same expectation – the ordination to Christ’s Holy Priesthood. And we should indeed be proud of this fact that another member of the parish has received the Holy Sacrament of Holy Orders. Continue reading Father Edmund Gutowski CM – 50th anniversary of priesthood→

Congratulations to The Very Reverend Canon Thomas C. Machalski upon the occasion of celebrating the 25th Anniversary of his Ordination. He is a friend of Polonia and a big friend of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish and the Vincentians. We wish Father Tom a lot of God’s blessing and graces in his apostolate to God’s people in the Diocese of Brooklyn and Polonia. Sto Lat!